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Writers Series: Jane Yolen
Start Date: 11/2/2009Start Time: 7:30 PM
End Date: 11/2/2009
Event Description
Jane Yolen is perhaps best known for her children’s picture books in the How Do Dinosaurs… series, illustrated by Mark Teague. Her earlier picture book, Owl Moon, illustrated by John Schoenherr, won the Caldecott Medal in 1988. 

Adult readers may recognize her for her time-travel fantasy novel, The Devil’s Arithmetic, which was awarded the Jewish Book Council Award and was a Nebula award finalist. Yolen is also a prolific reteller of traditional tales (including her award-winning novel, Briar Rose) and has written extensively on writing.

Her nonfiction books include Take Joy: A Book for Writers and Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood. Yolen’s talk is entitled, "Writing and the Three Rs: Reveal, Revision, Reinvention.” Her talk, this year’s Cathleen Mallaney Trees Lecture, is cosponsored by the Cultural Affairs Committee, the Booker Chair in Religion and Ethics, and the Education Department.
Location Information:
University of Richmond - Tyler Haynes Commons
Room: Alice Haynes Room
Contact Information:
Name: Elisabeth Gruner
Email: egruner@richmond.edu
Yolen cover